Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money was spent from the public purse on the Healthy Start scheme in the UK in (a) 2016-2017 and (b) 2017-2018.
The spend for the Healthy Start scheme, which is made up of the Healthy Start scheme and the Nursery Milk scheme, was £112.6 million in 2016-2017. The figures for 2017-18 are not yet available.